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Flash Used on 5% of All Websites, Down From 28.5% Seven Years Ago

posted by chromas on Saturday April 21 2018, @02:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the made-with-macromedia dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Only 4.9 percent of today's websites utilize Flash code, a number that has plummeted from a 28.5 percent market share recorded at the start of 2011.

The number, courtesy of web technology survey site W3Techs, confirms Flash's decline, and a reason why Adobe has decided to retire the technology at the end of 2020.

[...] On the client side, browser makers are expected to remove Flash support from their products altogether by the end of 2020 —Flash's end-of-life date.

2020 can't come soon enough.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/flash-used-on-5-percent-of-all-websites-down-from-285-percent-seven-years-ago/

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 22 2018, @04:17AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 22 2018, @04:17AM (#670238)

    Oh, yeah? It's easy to block? Try then and order a non-commuter train ticket any time, any place, and select a seat without Flash. For the sake of argument, say from Turku to Vaalimaa https://www.vr.fi/cs/vr/en/frontpage [www.vr.fi]

    If you get as far as choosing the type or location of seat, that site as currently "designed" requires Flash. You can let it choose something random for you if you skip Flash, but that's a recent improvement and for quite a while the site would stop at seat selection blocking ticket sales without Flash.

    The point is not to pick on any particular poorly designed web store but to point out that Flash is still in use by unscrupulous "web development" companies. When they can get away with using it, they get all kinds of follow up work either fixing it or making work-arounds. Thenin 2020 they will get called back as (surprise!) Flash goes end-of-life for the last time. That way they get paid again to redo the site using methods they should have used in the first place. Why get paid to make a good site, when they can get paid three times for the same site?

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday April 22 2018, @04:45AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday April 22 2018, @04:45AM (#670245) Journal

    The way to deal with it is to enable Flash selectively only for those web sites that absolutely require it (and that you absolutely require to work), and still keep it disabled otherwise.

    BTW, I still buy my train tickets offline and pay with cash.

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